Pete Stark: “There doesn't seem to be a program, other than tax cuts, to deal with the 6 million people”

I would first of all like to try to make it the protocol in this committee--I am not succeeding too well--that we strike from our lexicon the word 'disability.'

It gave every shyster and promoter a loophole. . . . We now have to keep rewriting the laws like the tax code.

I think we have to ask ourselves, how do we do more good than harm in eliminating the compensation arrangements.

I strongly agree with that and yet, here we are where repealing the ACA without a replacement as the Republicans have already begun to do, would cost roughly $350 billion through 2027.